Well, to be a fact-checker the day after Ryan's much anticipated, and highly dishonest and disingenuous, convention speech! Where does one begin? The GOP--and Ryan in particular--lives in an "up is down" sort of world.
How else does one explain Ryan's assertion that the President ignored the recommendations made by the Simpson-Bowles debt commission? The very commission that Ryan himself was on, and voted against the commission's own recommendations and convinced the other Republicans on the commission to follow suit. More here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/paul-ryan-fails----the-truth/2012/08/29/bbfe1eac-f254-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_blog.html#pagebreak
Or the assertion that Obamacare diverts funding from Medicare---the very same reductions that were included in Ryan's own plan?
Or the assertion that the President has resided over the most deficit spending in history, ignoring the fact that he--Ryan--voted for all the tax cuts and spending increases of the GW Bush era?
And there were more. See, for instance, here: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106730/ryan-most-dishonest-convention-speech-five-lies-gm-medicare-deficit-medicaid
Add to these other Romney-Ryan blatantly dishonest assertions (Obama gutting welfare reform; the "you didn't build it" attack; the claim that Romney-Ryan will balance the budget) and it's no wonder journalists, fact-checkers, and citizens have a tough time cutting through the bull. It's dizzying...
The Romney-Ryan campaign may just be the most dishonest major campaign in modern American history, where up is down, black is white, and fact-checkers be damned.. Hopefully--and I am skeptical--the American people will see through the lies and dishonesty and misdirection and mendacity come November.
Oh, and by the way, the economy is the major issue for this campaign, right? Just curious, what exactly is the Romney-Ryan plan for recovery? I, for one, haven't seen one, yet we are told that a vote for R-R is a vote for economic recovery? Just want to make sure I've got that straight....
